Some developers are taking a chance on an unusual amenity that plays off the popularity of videos and podcasts. Read more with Multifamily Dive here.

Developers on Wednesday filed plans for a 1.7 million-square-foot complex of housing and office space along the Mystic River in Charlestown, a big project that would plug an even bigger hole on the city’s sea-level-threatened waterfront.

The Flatley Co., longtime owners of the Schrafft’s building and neighboring parcels on Charlestown’s old Mystic riverfront, gave formal notice to the Boston Planning & Development Agency of plans to redevelop 425 Medford St., a 20-acre parcel that once housed the Domino Sugar refinery, into a large mixed-use project. Read more here.

Award-winning architecture, design, and strategy firm NELSON Worldwide announced the addition of Joseph L Muscarella as Vice President of Client Development. Joseph will foster growth for the firm’s retail practice, defining market opportunities through industry trend monitoring and growth opportunity assessment. He will also serve as a partner to NELSON’s workplace and hospitality practices.

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NELSON Worldwide, award-winning architecture, design, and strategy firm, welcomes Micah Hall as Southeast Regional Practice Leader of Hospitality. Micah has 20-plus years of experience in design, focusing on the conception of spaces where people gather, celebrate, and engage with others, specifically food and beverage, retail, and entertainment environments.

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Tasked with creating a space that emphasizes culture, NELSON Worldwide successfully translated the brand’s global story through key design elements and strategies. Read more here.

Hines, the international real estate firm, and Columbia Development today announce the topping out of Fenton, a 69-acre mixed-use district underway in Cary, North Carolina set to open on April 1, 2022. As the project reached its maximum height, the development team marked the occasion with a topping-out ceremony that brought together project partners, community members and future tenants to celebrate recent construction and leasing milestones. Read more here.

The doors opened this past weekend on the new outdoor retail concept by Dick’s Sporting Goods, Public Lands, led by industry veteran Todd Spaletto. The 50,000-square-foot store in Cranberry, Pa. (a suburb of Pittsburgh) is located in a busy shopping area, sandwiched between a Best Buy and a Walmart. The weekend-long event kicked off bright and early on Friday morning with a team pep talk by the executive chairman of Dick’s, Ed Stack. President and CEO Lauren Hobart was also in attendance to lead the store’s team in a raucous pre-opening cheer (captured below) and to support the 100+ staffers who have been working for months in preparation of the grand opening. Read the full article here.

We are excited to share that NELSON Worldwide has been ranked #6 on Building Design + Construction’s Top 145 Workplace/Interior Architecture Firms List. View the full list here.

We’re excited to share that NELSON Worldwide was ranked #1 Largest Architecture Firm in Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal’s Largest Architectural Firms in the Twin Cities List. Congratulations to our teammates and thank you to our partners! See the full list here.

WorkDesign Magazine covers COVID-19 behaviors and attitudes that will reshape the workplace. Kristin Cerutti and Laura Grodoski of NELSON Worldwide weigh in on the five shifts they predict will have the most significant impact. From physical safety, to mental health and wellbeing, there are several steps employers can take to help employees feel more at ease when returning to the office. Read more here.